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Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Winners
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Georgia Peach Award nominees are chosen by a committee of Georgia librarians. Winners are then selected each year by votes from Georgia teens. For more information visit the Peach Award website.
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Ace of Spades
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Devon and Chiamaka, two Black students at an elite prep school, compete for valedictorian until anonymous texts reveal their darkest secrets, forcing the pair to fight back, as the cyberbully's game soon turns deadly.
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Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn
Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered powers as well as sinister truths about her mother's death.
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The Prison Healer
by Lynette Noni
Tasked with keeping a captured and terminally ill Rebel Queen alive long enough to survive the formidable elemental Trial by Ordeal, death prison healer Kiva Meridan receives a coded message from her family before risking her life to take the queen's place.
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Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the Earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space where he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
This title is in our Adult Fiction collection.
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
by Holly Jackson
Five years after the shattering murder and suicide of two popular teens, a skeptical high school student reexamines the case before uncovering disturbing clues about what really happened.
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The Inheritance Games
by Jennifer Barnes
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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Cemetery Boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death.
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Clap When You Land
by Elizabeth Acevedo
An evocative novel in verse by the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their father and the impact of his death on their relationship.
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With the Fire on High
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen.
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Dry
by Neal Shusterman
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions and turns Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone. She is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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Starsight
by Brandon Sanderson
After becoming a pilot and learning some disturbing things about her father, Spensa disguises herself and enters a Krell pilot training program where she discovers the purpose of the program is to exterminate humans.
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Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
Profiled by a racist police officer in spite of his excellent academic achievements and Ivy League acceptance, a disgruntled college youth navigates the prejudices of new classmates and his crush on a white girl by writing a journal to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the hopes that his iconic role model's teachings will be applicable half a century later.
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Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
Coming of age in a land where her magi mother was killed by the zealous king's guards along with other former wielders of magic, Zélie embarks on a journey alongside her brother and a fugitive princess to restore her people's magical abilities.
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
by Jen Wang
When Prince Sebastian confides in his dressmaker friend Frances that he loves to masquerade at night as the fashionable Lady Crystallia, Frances must decide if Sebastian's secret is worth a lifetime of living in the shadows.
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Caught between her poor neighborhood and her fancy prep school, sixteen-year-old Starr Carter becomes the focus of intimidation and more after witnessing the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, by a police officer.
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Raybearer
by Jordan Ifueko
Raised in isolation by a mysterious mother known only as The Lady, lonely Tarisai is dispatched to become a member of the Crown Prince’s trusted council, whose members forge deep bonds with each other, before her mother directs her to commit an assassination.
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The Kingdom
by Jess Rothenberg
Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts.
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Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by their mutual enmity.
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All American Boys
by Jason Reynolds & Brandon Kiely
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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When We Collided
by Emery Lord
Resigning himself to another summer of just getting by, a young man overwhelmed by family responsibilities meets a vibrant, beauty-loving girl whose zest for life turns dangerous when she pursues increasingly high-risk adventures.
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
by Becky Albertalli
Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity—and that of his pen pal—will be revealed.
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We Were Liars by E. LockhartA modern, sophisticated suspense tale that follows the revolutionary activities of four friends who turn against each other in the wake of trauma, differing political views and a devastating secret.
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I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
This story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.
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Jackaby
by William Ritter
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
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